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International Classification for Patient Safety (ICPS)
Aim of the project
A standardized classification for key patient safety concepts is vital to share learning across health-care systems all over the world: It will help elicit, capture and analyse factors relevant to patient safety in a manner conducive to learning and system improvement. WHO Patient Safety is working to achieve just that - by defining, harmonizing and grouping such concepts into an internally agreed classification which will be adaptable, yet consistent, across the entire spectrum of health care and across cultures and languages.
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ICPS statement of purpose [pdf 28kb]
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Strategy
The conceptual framework
Building on vast experience in several countries reporting and classifying incidents, a conceptual framework has been elicited for understanding the patient safety domain and learning. Based on this a classification is being constructed. Tested for relevance in several sites using different reporting instruments, the conceptual framework has been endorsed as a basis for the future classification.
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Visual representation of the conceptual framework
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Chronology
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Background, reports & publications
Towards the classification
As a future member of the international family of classifications, the ICPS is being developed for optimum semantic interoperability. Supported by an extensive and robust knowledge representation that will make it easily processable by machines, the future classification will also be user-friendly and configurable for particular uses.
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ICPS development
For more information regarding the International Classification for Patient Safety, please contact icpscomments@who.int.
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